Parenting while famous.
Patrick Dempsey is the ultimate cool dad — cool enough, even, to allow his three children (all under the age of 15) to see his new rom-com, Bridget Jones’s Diary, opening Friday.
On Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the actor formerly known as McDreamy shared that he took his 14-year-old daughter to the London premiere of the Renée Zellweger romance, in which Dempsey plays one point of a love triangle alongside his British foil, Colin Firth. He’s also potentially the father of the titular baby, which could make things, well, awkward.
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“The subject matter’s a little — in certain places, I was a little nervous. I was more nervous than she was,” he told Kimmel of watching the movie alongside his teenager.
He also screened the movie for his nine-year-old sons.
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“They lasted about ten minutes and they checked out, they didn’t get the movie at all,” he said. Probably for the best. Check out the full interview with Kimmel above.
